CHEWABLE CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS AVOID BIOAVAILABILITY PROBLEMS
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
CHEWABLE CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS AVOID BIOAVAILABILITY PROBLEMS, researcher Robert Heaney, MD, Creighton University, noted at a March 5 workshop on calcium nutrition held during the Third International Symposium on Osteoporosis Research Advances and Clinical Applications in Washington, D.C. "One of the ways to ensure that you have your [calcium] tablet disintegrated," Heaney said, is "to use a chewable in the first place, because then it is disintegrated before it is swallowed."
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